All our munitions are being spent by green untrained conscripts “in order”.
Germany has two days of ammunition left and only a handful of operational fighter planes, they are tissue paper. They are inviting invasion.
Lucky for everyone then that its the Poles on the front line, not the Germans. In that post-1991 “swords into ploughshares” thing, its the Germans that carried it to absurd lengths.
“”Germany has two days of ammunition left and only a handful of operational fighter planes, they are tissue paper.””
The increase in NATO readiness is one of the great benefits we are getting from the Russians invading their neighbor.
“Rheinmetall eyes boost in munitions output, HIMARS production in Germany”
“We can produce 240,000 rounds of tank ammunition (120mm) per year, which is more than the entire world needs,” Papperger said in an interview with Reuters.
The capacity for the production of 155mm artillery rounds can be ramped up to 450,000 to 500,000 per year, he added, which would make Rheinmetall the biggest producer for both kinds of ammunition.
In 2022, Rheinmetall made some 60,000 to 70,000 rounds each of tank and artillery shells, according to Papperger, who said production could be boosted immediately.
Demand for these munitions has soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February, not only due to their massive use on the battlefield but also as Western militaries backfill their own stocks, bracing for what they see as a heightened threat from Moscow.
Papperger said a new production line for medium calibre ammunition, used by German-built Gepard anti-aircraft tanks in Ukraine for example, would go live by mid-year.
The Germans have sent no planes, and are ramping up ammo production, and general spending on defense, so, they were at least as bad off, this time last year, as they are now.